Cops: 5 dead, 13 others injured in shootings

April 20, 2014|By Peter Nickeas and Carlos Sadovi | Tribune reporters

An 18-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy were found dead of apparent gunshot wounds in a home in the South Chicago neighborhood in Saturday and Sunday shootings that left at least two other people dead and 13 more injured.

For the two found shot to death Saturday in South Chicago, Chicago police were called to a home on the 8200 block of South Houston Avenue at 10:38 a.m., said Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Jose Estrada.

Officials are not releasing the name of the 18-year-old victim who lived at the home. Shot with him was Jordan Means, 16, of the 8100 block of South Coles Avenue. They were pronounced dead at 10:50 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

The two were found dead with multiple gunshot wounds, according to the office. Area South detectives were investigating.

In addition to that shooting, a 42-year-old man was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side, police said.

Darren Ray of the 3000 block of West Flournoy Street was found in an alley on the 2900 block of West Flournoy Street at 9:30 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Ray was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital at 10:04 a.m. according to the medical examiner's office.

• Two men, 29 and 39, were shot about 2:40 a.m. Sunday in the 100 block of East 132nd Street in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood. Neither cooperated with police and would only admit to hearing shots and feeling pain, police said. The older of the two was hit in the upper thigh and the younger man was shot in the buttocks, police said. Both were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center and their condition had been stabilized, police said.

• A 25-year-old man was shot in the abdomen about 1:30 a.m. in the Little Village neighborhood. The shooting happened on Hamlin Avenue between 24th and 25th streets but police and paramedics found the man shot on 24th Street a couple blocks west near Springfield Avenue. The shooters yelled "king love" before opening fire, a reference to a gang in the area, police said. Graffiti in the area shows it to be claimed by Two-Sixes, a gang that rivals the Latin Kings. The man identifies with the Two-Sixes gang and is in stable condition at Mount Sinai Hospital, police said.

• About 2:30 a.m., a 34-year-old man was shot in Little Village outside a bar at 27th Street and Kildare Avenue after he was hit in the head with a tire iron, according to police and witnesses. The attackers yelled "king love" before the shooting. A second man was also hit in the head and taken to an area hospital.

The man with just the head wound was bandaged under his chin and around the top of his head and then placed his red baseball cap back on before walking to the ambulance. He appeared dazed.

Around the corner from the shooting, between 26th and 27th Street on Tripp Avenue, while detectives and investigators looked for evidence and took photos of the scene, a group of young men yelled at passing cars and flashed gang signs.

• A 22-year-old man was left in critical condition with gunshot wounds to his face and chest after he was shot about 10 p.m. Saturday in the 7200 block of South Perry Avenue in the Park Manor neighborhood. He was taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County in critical condition, Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro said. The 22-year-old was among a group that argued with another group across the street. Someone from the opposite group opened fire.

• A 16-year-old boy walked into Advocate Trinity Hospital with a gunshot wound to his back after he was shot about 9:30 p.m. in the 7600 block of South Dorchester Avenue in the Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side, Alfaro said. He had been driving when someone on the street opened fire and the boy drove to the hospital. His condition was stabilized.

• At 7:15 p.m. a 16-year-old boy was in an alley in the 5900 block of South Maplewood Avenue in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood when he was shot, police said. The boy was in the alley when an unknown person walked up and shot him in the upper back near his right shoulder, police said. The boy was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center where his condition had stabilized.